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California History articles from January 2002
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California History archives from January 2002
California on his mind the easel and pen of pioneer George Duglas Brewerton.
January 1, 2002... In late February of 1848, a tall and wiry second lieutenant whose father was superintendent of West Point sat "in arrest" in San Francisco. George Douglas Brewerton may have occupied the same Yerba Buena blockhouse that he usually commanded in...
The start of something big: theater music in Los Angeles, 1880-1900.
January 1, 2002... A DYNAMIC MUSIC CULTURE
Just as there is no business like show business, there is no musical metropolis like Los Angeles. The city has become the epicenter for entertainment in America. Almost every type of musical tradition has flourished...
The week the experts came to town.(Los Angeles, CA, 1912)
January 1, 2002... Every major American city has experienced a strategic juncture in its growth when it crossed a threshold, shedding the entrapments of local or regional parochialism and moving into the fullness of a nationally recognized metropolis. For some...
Trailblazing in Marin: women's Dipsea hikes, 1918-1922.
January 1, 2002... In June 2001, sixty-one-year-old Shirley Matson crossed the finish line first, winning her third Dipsea cross-country foot race in less than a decade. (1) Matson's successes on the Dipsea course are as remarkable as the race itself, which is...
Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects. (Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Edited by Gordon H. Chang. (Washington, D.C., and Stanford, Calif.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2001, xiv, 425 pp., $60.00 cloth.)
The bulk of the essays in this collection emerged from a conference on Asian...
Water and the Shaping of California. (Reviews).
January 1, 2002... By Sue McClurg. (Sacramento: Water Education Foundation and Heyday Books, 2000, 168 pp., $90.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.)
Sue McClurg's book is both visually and historically rewarding. Water and the Shaping of California is co-published by the...
Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles. (Reviews).
January 1, 2002... By James Thomas Keane. (Los Angeles: The Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, and The Historical Society of Southern California, 2001, 287 PP., $25.00 cloth.)
Los Angeles is probably the most...
American Character: The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest. (Reviews).
January 1, 2002... By Mark Thompson. (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001, 372 pp., $27.95 cloth.)
Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) was a man of extraordinary talents. He was an activist, anthropologist, archaeologist, author, editor, journalist, librarian,...
Jack London's Women. (Reviews).
January 1, 2002... By Clarice Stasz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001, xvi, 393 pp., $39.95 cloth.)
It was in 1976, the centennial of Jack London's birth, that Clarice Stasz published "Androgyny in the Novels of Jack London." That article...